Photos of my RIB and my old Car

[danyeates]

Hi,

Just seen this forum so I thought I'd put some photos up of my RIB. I work for a large Avon dealer so I built this myself in my spare time. I have since fitted a rear seat too.

Spec:

2009 Avon Adventure 580
Yamaha four stroke 150hp fuel injected
Indespension Roller Coaster trailer
2x Outhill jockey seats, console with forward seat and rear bench
8" Garmin 3D GPS plotter and sonar, connected to the engine for full engine data readout
Garmin VHF radio
Fusion CD player and iPod controller
Stainless steel wakeboarding/skiing A-frame
Flo-matting blue decking
etc...

[danyeates]

I have some other photos of her on the water, the console and during the build but they're all on my phone and for some readon it won't connect to my PC today so I'll get those up at a later date!

[XJSJohn]

that looks like one very serious RIB!!

[minimanAC]

Great Boat you got there fella

[danyeates]

Thanks, still haven't managed to get any better photos of it on the water. I've not really been home much the past few days.

[bigbellytom]

Lovely rib mate!! quick question as your a boating man!!
Ive always had boats with outboards, i have just picked up a bit of a winter bargain ready fro next season and its in-board.

Its a 2001 monteray with a mercruiser 4.3 with alpha1 outdrive. The engine has a closed cooling system and sucks water in throught the leg and that cools the heat exchange. how do i go about winterising this boat?? obvioulsy i have done it before with outboards but this is a new game to me
tom

[danyeates]

bigbellytom said:

Lovely rib mate!! quick question as your a boating man!!
Ive always had boats with outboards, i have just picked up a bit of a winter bargain ready fro next season and its in-board.

Its a 2001 monteray with a mercruiser 4.3 with alpha1 outdrive. The engine has a closed cooling system and sucks water in throught the leg and that cools the heat exchange. how do i go about winterising this boat?? obvioulsy i have done it before with outboards but this is a new game to me
tom

Thanks!


I'll find out for you. I've never had a sterndrive myself and all our servicing gets done at our service centre a few miles away so I'm not clued up on that!

[Cupramax]

bigbellytom said:

Lovely rib mate!! quick question as your a boating man!!
Ive always had boats with outboards, i have just picked up a bit of a winter bargain ready fro next season and its in-board.

Its a 2001 monteray with a mercruiser 4.3 with alpha1 outdrive. The engine has a closed cooling system and sucks water in throught the leg and that cools the heat exchange. how do i go about winterising this boat?? obvioulsy i have done it before with outboards but this is a new game to me
tom

Best and safest way to winterise an Alpha 1 leg (although you can drain the engine via the plug in the manifold heat exchnagers) is to put the leg into a dustbin full of standard antifreeze mix and run it up until it starts to come out of the outlet. Some will drain out but at least you'll be sure any water left in the engine wont freeze.

Edited to add you MUST let the engine warm sufficiently to open the thermostat when doing this...

Edited by Cupramax on Wednesday 4th November 09:44

[danyeates]

Couple more photos since it's been finished. The rear bench seat I managed to pick up second hand which saved me about £1,000! It's the wrong colour at the moment but it's only around £200 for new upholstery which I'll be ordering soon.

Edited by danyeates on Sunday 15th November 13:52

[Taffer]

Nice rib, but I do have a question - is the CD/iPod system really necessary? I can imagine that most of your time in the rib is spent looking like this:

[danyeates]

Of course it is! Wouldn't be without it. What are you going to listen to when you're sunbathing with a beer, or having lunch or out fishing for the afternoon. I love music and it helps me relax (when we're not bombing along!)

[danyeates]

Just a few photos of it tucked up in the lovely warm, dry and SAFE! showroom for the winter. One HUGE benefit of working where I do is the storage and that it can be kept on display in the showroom throughout the winter. I hate leaving boats outside for the winter. Everything stays damp and water freezes causing problems with the engine and bilge pump etc.

Edited by danyeates on Sunday 20th December 13:45

[danyeates]

For some reason PH resizes the pictures and they look all pixelly, the originals are here: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/danyeates5/FishingSe...

[Spoons]

How do you fancy a weekend run to Alderney @ May/June time?

[danyeates]

Possibly, never done it in anything so small though! What do you have?

[Spoons]

Keep an eye on ribnet forum -upcoming cruises, last year 8 ribs, 2 hard boats & 2 jetski's went for a weekend, should be a return visit on the cards.

[Silver993tt]

What does a RIB like that cost? I'm tentatively looking for one but I need it shipped to the Med where it will be kept (no problem with freezing water there!)

Edited by Silver993tt on Wednesday 23 December 21:56

[Cmurder]

Silver993tt said:

What does a RIB like that cost? I'm tentatively looking for one but I need it shipped to the Med where it will be kept (no problem with freezing water there!)

Edited by Silver993tt on Wednesday 23 December 21:56

with our ph contacts i reckon atleast a 50 PERCENT discount is in order

im looking for a jetski if anyone has one !

[danyeates]

Cmurder said:

Silver993tt said:

What does a RIB like that cost? I'm tentatively looking for one but I need it shipped to the Med where it will be kept (no problem with freezing water there!)

Edited by Silver993tt on Wednesday 23 December 21:56

with our ph contacts i reckon atleast a 50 PERCENT discount is in order

im looking for a jetski if anyone has one !

You'll be lucky, I'm afraid margins in the marine are ridiculously tight, in fact we usually give away most of our dealer discount on outboards just to be competitive with "box pushers"

A RIB like mine would now cost you around £33,000 or so, but mine does have a lot of options. £2,600 GPS, £400 decking, £1,100 A-frame, maximum engine (F150 now costs around £13,000 RRP), £350 stereo etc.

You could probably get my RIB in a very basic spec for around £24,000 I expect, boat engine and trailer. Unfortunately the prices have risen a lot last year and the prices have just risen again for the new year. In around a year, some of the Yamaha's went up by over 30%. Does have a positive affect on the used boat values though, they've been rising a lot. I built mine myself but there are a couple around used. I currently have a 2008 model with a Yamaha F115 and trailer for £21,000.

[danyeates]

Silver993tt said:

What does a RIB like that cost? I'm tentatively looking for one but I need it shipped to the Med where it will be kept (no problem with freezing water there!)

Edited by Silver993tt on Wednesday 23 December 21:56

By the way, we ship a lot of boats to the Med so it might be worth dropping me an email if you have an idea on what you want, budget etc.